ISBN: 9780975323755

Published: January 1st 2005

Paperback

32 pages

Poetry. OCallaghans collection of poems deals with many problems, big and small-gardening, big feet, old classmates, modern world, cancer, death, etc.-with both humor and poignancy. At times OCallaghans language is so comical and absurd that theMorePoetry. OCallaghans collection of poems deals with many problems, big and small-gardening, big feet, old classmates, modern world, cancer, death, etc.-with both humor and poignancy.

At times OCallaghans language is so comical and absurd that the reader laughs with and at the poet. But at other times her language is so intimate, her settings and thoughts so familiar that her world and thoughts become the readers: There is the wasp problem, / the storms problem, the grass / growing-between-the-bricks-in-the-driveway problem.

/ Then theres the remembering to / lock-all-the-windows problem. / Hey, knuckleheads! / I guess you just dont appreciate / how many problems there are. OCallaghan is the author of Whats What, a Poetry Book Society Choice, and has received the Michael Hartnett Prize for poetry.